Bob Riffs on Apple and Microsoft
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006Bob Cringely talks about Apple’s movement towards running Microsoft Applications. Always a good read.
Archive for April, 2006
Chris Chedgey blogs…
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
when we worked together at Generics Software.Stupidity on London Overland Rail
Thursday, April 13th, 2006This is an easy one to fix, but a problem that still plagues most of London’s overland rail stations (its a problem in lreland as well, but given we only have half a dozen railway tracks it hardly seems worth then while). The problem? Why can’t I see what station I am in from every carriage on the train.
I’m forever craning and bending to see the two or possibly three signs posted in each station. If you are in the end carriage forget it, your missing your stop, end of story.
The underground fixed this problem years ago so lets not hear excuses like not possible, too expensive, no demand etc. etc….
Big Ed’s Easy Diner
Thursday, April 13th, 2006Ed’s Easy Diner tucked behind the Palace Theater off Cambridge Circus is quite simply the best short order food on offer in the Northern Hemisphere. I ate here practically every weekend for about ten years when I lived in London and I went back yesterday to exactly the same service, quality and life renewing burgers I left behind 8 years ago.
Some things do not fade….
In London
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006In London for the week. A city not to everyone’s taste but it definitely floats my boat. Saw the London Gherkin yesterday. It looks less striking up close because its not much bigger than the Nat West Tower.
Feeds for road deaths in Ireland
Thursday, April 6th, 2006Many people (including myself) answered Damien Mulley’s call for help with converting the garda road deaths statistics page to a news feed. A free tool, feed43 seemed to be most people’s weapon of choice.
Take your pick, John kelly was first out of the blocks followed rapidly by Bernar with his more detailed effort. Yours truely was two days late with this effort (serves me right for not reading the comments).
Bottom line is that feed43 is a great screen scraping tool for creating feeds.
Gene Pitney - RIP - 17-Feb-1941 to 5-Apr-2006
Thursday, April 6th, 2006Gene Pitney passed away yesterday. I will always remember as a child listening to The Man who Shot Liberty Valance over and over again on an eight track cartridge as we drove from Luton to Holyhead on the way back to Dublin for Christmas.
He was legend then and that was over 30 years ago…
Screw Software - Curry Sauce is where the money is
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006Ok a bag of chips €2 I can just about stomach, but an additional €2 to throw a cup of curry sauce over the top, someone is taking the piss. I reckon a weeks supply of the stuff couldn’t cost more than €10.
Don’t even try and get me started on garlic sauce….
Steeltrace exits for $20million
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I see in today’s Irish Times that Steeltrace was sold to Compuware for $20million. Steeltrace was a company that was salvaged from the wreckage of Ebeon. They have a requirements management tool (a pretty good one I might add) that gives you a soup to nuts requirements process based on Use Cases. I’ve known Fergal (the CTO) since his Ebeon days and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Another nice exit for TVC on top of Similarity Systems (that Caulfield fella seems to be everywhere these days:-)) so good times all round for the Irish Software Industry…
Microformats
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006I came across the microformat website via Jon Udell’s blog. Some pretty good design principles in here. Could be retrofitted quite usefully on the RFC process (from whence many of the ideas came, I guess).
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